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    copied!<p>I have a problem using BeautifulSoup4... (I'm quite a Python/BeautifulSoup newbie, so forgive me if i'm dumb)</p> <p>Why does the following code:</p> <pre><code>from bs4 import BeautifulSoup soup_ko = BeautifulSoup('&lt;select&gt;&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option&gt;bar &amp; baz&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option&gt;qux&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;') soup_ok = BeautifulSoup('&lt;select&gt;&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option&gt;bar and baz&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option&gt;qux&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;') print soup_ko.find_all('option') print soup_ok.find_all('option') </code></pre> <p>produce the following output:</p> <pre><code>[&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;, &lt;option&gt;bar &amp;amp; baz&lt;/option&gt;] [&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;, &lt;option&gt;bar and baz&lt;/option&gt;, &lt;option&gt;qux&lt;/option&gt;] </code></pre> <p>i was expecting the same result, an array of my 3 options... but BeautifulSoup seems to dislike the ampersand in the text? How can i get rid of this and get a correct array without editing my HTML (or by transforming/converting it)?</p> <p>thanks,</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Seems like a 4.2.0 bug... i downloaded both 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 versions (from <a href="http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/4.2/beautifulsoup4-4.2.0.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/4.2/beautifulsoup4-4.2.0.tar.gz</a> and <a href="http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/4.2/beautifulsoup4-4.2.1.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/4.2/beautifulsoup4-4.2.1.tar.gz</a>), unzip it in my script folder, change my code to:</p> <pre><code>import sys sys.path.insert(0, "beautifulsoup4-" + sys.argv[1]) from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, __version__ print "Beautiful Soup %s" % __version__ soup_ko = BeautifulSoup('&lt;select&gt;&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option&gt;bar &amp; baz&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option&gt;qux&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;') print soup_ko.find_all('option') </code></pre> <p>and got the results:</p> <pre><code>15:24:38 pataluc ~ % python stack.py 4.2.0 Beautiful Soup 4.2.0 [&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;, &lt;option&gt;bar &amp;amp; baz&lt;/option&gt;] 15:24:41 pataluc ~ % python stack.py 4.2.1 Beautiful Soup 4.2.1 [&lt;option&gt;foo&lt;/option&gt;, &lt;option&gt;bar &amp;amp; baz&lt;/option&gt;, &lt;option&gt;qux&lt;/option&gt;] </code></pre> <p>so i guess my question is closed. thanks for your comments who made me realize it was a version issue.</p>
 

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